Through The Lens

The 2025 HFFCF Fair

It’s that time of year again: months of work with sheep and rabbits all coming to fruition for the 2025 HFFCF far. The new format […]

The Final Shear

One final day at the salon before we head to the fair

The Healdsburg Sheep Salon

Stan, Kenny and Betsy are looking mighty fine after a day at the sheep salon! All ready for the HFFCF shearing tomorrow…

The Anxious Generation

The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt Haidt is one of my favorite writers, his other book on a similar topic – The Coddling of the American […]

Healdsburg Home Track Meet

Last home track meet of the season! Fun to watch all the kids out there giving it their all… Pretty impressive to see one of […]

The 2025 Sugar Bowl Pond Skim

One last weekend of the ski season for us. No way we were going to miss the Sugar Bowl pond skim for two years in […]

Shearing Time

Stan, Kenny and Betsy enjoying a morning at Max and Lilia’s salon…

Diving Taveuni and the Rainbow Reef

Unlike driving a car or flying a plane, there’s no age limit associated with SCUBA diving. Max had been wanting to join me on a […]

The Garden Island

Twenty years ago when Lisa and I got engaged we decided to get married on neutral ground somewhere between Adelaide and San Francisco. So we […]

Adelaide

Last year we received news of the St Mark’s centenary gala dinner to be held on March 15, 2025. Given Lisa and I met at […]

Spring Weather at Bull Pine

A magic evening of spring weather watching the sun set and cooking dinner over an open fire up at Bull Pine with the Munselles. Views […]

President’s Day at Powder Haus

Another atmospheric river blessed us in the days before President’s Day long weekend, and unlike the warm temps that came with the atmospheric rivers a […]

Our Last Valentine’s Dance!

Lisa and I realized last night that this is our last Alexander Valley School Valentine’s Dance. It’s flying by too fast! Wild Man and the […]

Atmospheric Rivers X 3

Since the storm we had on January 3 during our stay at Powder Haus for Christmas the Sierras (and Northern California in general) hadn’t seen […]

Alexander Valley School Christmas 2024

Truly the end of an era: our last year with a child performing in the AVS Christmas performance. But all the teachers told us last […]

South Burma

Chasing the boy down his favorite Sonoma County descent in Annadel…

New Lambs

Meeting this year’s batch of 4H lambs out in Graton this morning

‘Tis the Season!

We welcomed the Christmas season with tree decorating and an afternoon in San Francisco. First time any of us had ever skated on the Christmas […]